Green Practices: Pocket Guides

The key to a green lifestyle is making conscious choices to use sustainable and safe, toxin-free products. There are many handy pocket guides available that can help you on the go. In addition to the traditional folded cards, you can get advice right through your cell phone!

The AZA Green Scientific Advisory Group has provided a list of pocket guides that cover consumer products to action steps you can take to lead a healthier life for yourself and the environment.

Check out these additional resources:

Seafood

• Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector Pocket Selectors for general seafood and sushi.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Excellent fact sheets for many popular seafood species.
• Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Sensible Seafood Program Partners with Monterey Bay Aquarium to localize selections for Virginia.
• Shedd Aquarium Right Bite  Also identifies fish high in mercury.
• World Wildlife Fund Guides Guides for France, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Belgium, Indonesia, and South Africa.

Consumer Products

• National Geographic Green Guide: Plastic Water Bottles Describes the plastics indicated by the number in the recycling symbol, how they are used and which ones to avoid.
• ZRecs: BPA-free Plastics Guide Sources for BPA-free feeding items and pacifiers for children.
• Environmental Ratings on Household Tissue Paper Products The NRDC also offers a guide on tissue paper. It is more comprehensive than GreenPeace's guide, but not designed as a wallet card.    

Green Practices

• Detroit Zoological Society Shades of Green Guide (PDF) Everyday things you can do to green your life.